Improvement in sash-holders



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BASH-HOLDER.

Patented June 6, 18 76.

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Ais a metal case, consisting of the two- @UNITED STATES JAMES P. JONES, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SASH-HOLDERS.

Specificationforming part of Letters Patent No. 178,24l, dated June 6, 1876; application filed February 3, 1876.

ver, whereby a sash-fastener is obtained which is cheap, simple, easily repaired, and capable of holding the sash in both a closed and open position, and at any height, without the aid of extra appliances and without defacing the sash, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is an isometric view of my improved sash-fastener, and Fig. 2 a sectional-view of same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correparallel plates at a united at the ends by a narrow plate extending partly around the ends and down the outer edge a proper distance to form the seats b b and the opening -0 between them. The case A is attached to the window-casing by screws 8 s passing through holes in the plate a. d isa rubber or leather strip fitted between the plates a a, and to rest loosely on the seats b b. c is a springplate fitted on top of the strip d, and draws the same back onto the seats b b when relieved from pressure. a a are two eccentrics formed on the end of the lever l by an oblong head pivoted in its center to the case A by pin 1 in such a manner that when the lever 1 stands at a right angle to the sash c the fiat portion between the eccentrics is over the spring 0, and relieves the same from pressure, and by turning the lever 1 either up or down the eccentrics are brought to bear on the spring 0 andpress the rubber or leather strip 61 against the sash. To look the sash when closed, the lever l is turned up so that the pressure of the eccentric is increased with the upward pressure of the sash, and for supporting the sash when raised, the lever l is turned down to cause the weight of the sash to increase the pressure of the opposite eocentrie' The pivoting-pin 1" passes through both plates at a and eccentrics n n, and is readily inserted or withdrawn in case the spring 0 or strip at require renewal.

, What I claim as my invention is The improved sash-fastener, consisting of the case A formed of the two parallel plates CL a, united at the ends by the seats I) b, and having opening 0 between them, the rubber or leather strip (1, and spring-plate e, placed in said seats, and the pivoted lever Z, having the two eccentrics n n, all constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have. signed my name and affixed my seal in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York this 28th day of January, 187 6.

JAMES P. JONES. [L. s.] Witnesses:

G. HOLMETRUP, Jr.', 7 I. G. LAAS.

PATENT OFFICE; 

